assistant
/əˈsɪst(ə)nt
/noun
1A person who ranks below a senior person: the managing director and his assistant [as modifier]: an assistant manager...
- The jobs on offer range from betting assistants to managers of off-course betting centres.
- The company has taken on retail managers, cashiers and assistants and is already doing a roaring trade.
- All hurling team managers, their assistants and parents are asked to attend.
Synonyms
subordinate, deputy, auxiliary, second, second in command, number two, lieutenant, right-hand man, right-hand woman, wingman, aide, personal assistant, PA, attendant, mate, apprentice, junior;
henchman, underling, hired hand, hired help, servant;
helper, aider, colleague, associate, partner, confederate, accomplice, collaborator, accessory, abetter, supporter, backer
informal vice, man/girl Friday, sidekick, skivvy, running dog, gofer, gopher
British informal dogsbody, poodle
North American informal body man
1.1 [with adjective or noun modifier] A person who helps in particular work: a care assistant...
- He went to work as an administrative assistant with a legitimate arms dealer but failed to impress.
- She returned to the store and, with the help of a more sympathetic assistant, found a wig she liked.
- The equally sheepish assistant fiddled with the mouse and looked blankly at the screen.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French, or from medieval Latin assistent- 'taking one's stand beside', from the verb assistere (see assist).
Rhymes
- Squamata
- squamate
- Squamish
- squamocolumnar
- squamosal
- squamous
- squamule
- squamulose
- squander
- squanderer
- Squanto
- square
- square accounts with
- square ball
- square-bashing
- square bracket
- square-built
- pleurothotonos
- pleurothotonus
- pleurotomarid
- pleurotomariid
- pleurotomarioid
- pleurotomy
- pleurovisceral
- pleurum